, 1887-06-23
TOW TALK.
GossIpy Little Paragraphs Picked Up
Throughout the City.


town are sadly in need of cleaning.
Everyone should attend the meeting
for the formation of a board of trade to-
night.
Reagan, the man who was 80 terribly
crushed in the Union Pacific yards Mon
day. is improving.
A runaway team scattered some furni-
ture along Capitol avenue near Seven
tenth street last night.
Madame Janish Countess Arco) will
give both a matinee and evening perform
ance at the opera house Saturday.
Six tramps who were sleeping in a box
car in the Union Pacific yards were
marched to the calaboose at | o'clock this
morning.
Three running horses from the stable of
&. 2. Aoh, Los Angeles, Cal, passed
through the city yesterday en- route for
Saratoga. N. Y.
The city board OF equalization has at
last finished its labors. The total assessed
valuation of Cheyenne property is in the
%neighborhood of $4,000, 900.
Some charitable person left a large
quantity Of assorted literature at the court
house yesterday for the ediication of the
prisoners confined in the county Jail
The filter in front of the opera house is
visited By hundreds of people daily from
all parts of town for the purpose of get
ting a taste of real water. The 81 stem
will no doubt prove highly satisfactory
when in operation.
Alex Mckay, who formerly had charge
of the tie burnettiziug works at Laramie,
was in town yesterday. He says that the
plant will be removed further east, as the
company concluded that Laramie was not
the proper location for it.
1t is said that Jim Willoughby and
Tommy Duffy, formerly of this city, but
now with Buffalo Bills Wild West show
in London, have become so refined that
they now refer to a ''cinch" as a "girth,"
and call a COW pony a auadruped.
As an officer was herding four tramps
up Ferguson street last night, one of them
made a break down Sixteenth, and while
the policeman was looking at the fleeing
gentleman of leisure the other three wan
dered out toward the boulevard a la foot
racer.
The report that a clerk in a Sixteenth
street store fell down and broke his gall is
being general denied. People have too
great a faith in the stability of the article.
1t is far more probable that in falling the
gall broke a 2xS plank in the unfortunate
sidewalk.
J. NJ. Mcfarland, Iron Mountain, fore
man for j. w. Collins, came in from the
ranch last night. He reports grass good
and cattle fat in that vicinity. OF a bunch
of l.500 cattle seen by Mr.. Mcfarland
Tuesday, fully 500 we're in good marketable
condition.
The ladies' of the Presbyterian church
have well earned a reputation for first.
class entertainments. They are now ar
ranging for a most enjoyable and profit
able evening. The date is July / and the
place Keefe hall. All friends of this
church should keep the night.
A rough looking individual, evidently a
tramp, stole a valise filled with fancy
goods from a peddlar's wagon yesterday
while the travelling merchant was extolling
the merits of his wares to the occupants
of a west end residence. The thief was
captured and the goods recovered
In the case of "a boarding house firm
against johnson X Mccormick in Judge
Fishers court Yesterday, his honor decid
ed that johnson was not responsible for
bills contracted by Mccormick, and rem
dered judgment against the latter GENTLE
man to the tune of $50 and costs.
The excursion train over the Cheyenne
4 Northorn railroad will leave here
promptly at s o'clock Sunday morning.
Tickets are on sale at Rhodes h Troxel's.
Pearse & McGill's, DIR. W. N. Hunts,
E. H. Leiby's. E. J. Towslee's and W.
NJ. MASKS. Children, half price; under
5 years, free.
The man who was arrested while asleep
IN an alley, with about $1,000 on his
person, Tuesday night. roared loud and
long when fined $40 for drunkenness by
Judge Lee yesterday, seeming to forget
that he was probably the gamer by the
transaction. He finally paid and departed
still Rrumbling.
While j. R. Dixon, the Rawlius attor
ney, possesses many good traits. he would
never make a successful Spectator. At
the Inter Ocean last evening he wagered
six bits to a nickel that Mr., Caldwell, of
Kentucky. did not know the name of the
county in which Cheyenne is situated.
The gentleman from Kentucky answered
correctly and pocketed the Doodle, but
Dixon insists that John Chase posted
the stranger while the bet was being
made.